Why not continue with lip products this week, I tried so many recently that I think it’s time to reveal their deal.
There’s been always an attempt to create perfect long-lasting lipsticks, I remember 15 years ago it was for example Max Factor (and Cover Girl) and I see, now again, new liquid longwearing lipsticks releases. I’m a drugstore girl when it comes to lip products so of course I bought few new to test. Let me throw the spoiler in right now – I’m not happy what so ever.
I bought Matte style lip lacquer by Astor, Provocalips by Rimmel and Infallible 24h lip colour by L’Oreal.
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| Matte style lip lacquer by Astor |
Price: Astor lacquer costs 9,49€, Provocalips by Rimmel 11,99€ and Infallible lip colour 17,49€ (L’Oreal either change your pricing or get out of drugstore! To pay 17€ for a drugstore lipstick that’s just too much!).
Colours: Astor offers 5 colours, mine is 215 Just so Stylish, Rimmel 10 shades, mine in colour 110 Dare to Pink and finally L’Oreal 14 shades in Europe, I stupidly bought two colours, 111 Permanent Blush and 121 Flawless Fuchsia.
Scent: all three lipsticks have paint-like scent, balms have sweet scent.
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| Matte style lip lacquer in colour 215 Just so Stylish by Astor |
Texture: Astor: it has light creamy non sticky texture. It glides very easily on the lips which, if you don’t pay attention, can lead to crossing lip line and to creating little bit of mess. It is not drying at the application but after few hours you can definitely feel that you are wearing something.
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| Provocalips by Rimmel |
Rimmel: it has also creamy texture, but it is so sticky that I had hard time opening my mouth after the application. If you want to try to apply it, do not close and rub your lips, wait till it’s dry and apply the balm that comes with it (it has thick creamy glossy texture). To get even colour you have to reapply few layers which becomes difficult with that terrible glue-like texture. It feels dry after short time and you have to reapply the balm to survive all that stickiness and dryness on the lips.
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| Provocalips in colour 110 Dare to Pink by Rimmel |
L’Oreal: light creamy non sticky texture at first but once it dries it becomes sticky (but not even close to stickiness of Rimmel one) and you have to immediately apply a balm that comes with it (it’s a creamy balm stick). If you reapply the balm very often you may decrease the dryness of the lips but I don’t think this is an everyday lipstick. What is nice about this one is that once it’s sealed by the balm it doesn’t transfer.
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| Infallible 24h lip colour lipsticks by L'Oreal |
Longevity: this is where the problem gets worse. These liquid lipsticks last quite a long time but if you eat they don’t fade out completely (like for example Master drama pencil by Maybelline that I like) but they leave behind bright reddish colour at the outer part of the lips. You cannot get rid of that colorful ring, it’s glued like nothing I’ve seen before, it feels tacky, it accentuates all the lines and if you add more to even out the colour it becomes a lot worse looking and feeling.
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| Infallible 24h lip colour lipsticks in 111 Permanent Blush and 121Flawless Fuchsia by L'Oreal |
Final verdict: As you can see these lipsticks are not my cup of tea, they don’t feel good on my lips. They look awful once you have eaten and adding more colour on the top just makes the lips look and feel worse. The worst out of bunch is Rimmel, absolute horror, which I couldn’t stand wearing more than one full day, for the testing purposes, and I don’t think that I would even pass it to somebody as I don’t want anybody else to suffer. The best out of these three is L’Oreal, at least it doesn’t transfer and doesn’t look as bad as other two although still drying and still patchy. I’m quite mad at myself that I bought 2 colours (considering their price). When Sephora offers 20% off I can actually get for almost the same price Smashbox or Makeup Forever long-lasting liquid lipsticks which may be better quality than these drugstore ones.
